Green Naming Policy (Petition)

[Canelek]

Wiping inactive level 1 characters is indeed classic. I cannot cite date(s), however.

[Llandris]

Originally Posted by Canelek [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wiping inactive level 1 characters is indeed classic. I cannot cite date(s), however.

A "purge" would fall into the realm of classicness since it happened sometime early live era. I gave my opinion on the matter and I would like to see it happen prior to Green release. Something along the lines of all inactive level 1's (5+ years) are purged or have a letter or letters added to the end of their names so it frees the name up.

[Danth]

Letters added to the end of their names might be better. Some of those inactive level 1's are probably storage alts and at least a few of 'em are likely to be back due to green re-invigorating some interest.

Danth

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Letters added to the end of their names might be better. Some of those inactive level 1's are probably storage alts and at least a few of 'em are likely to be back due to green re-invigorating some interest.

Danth

Agreed, but the devs can be smart too.

If the toon has no loot (or whatever the devs consider to be the equivalent of "no loot" ... maybe <5p in total droppable goods and no "no drop" items except from newbie zones?) they could delete it, but if it has stuff on it they could rename the toon instead.

[Raev]

Originally Posted by Llandris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A "purge" would fall into the realm of classicness since it happened sometime early live era. I gave my opinion on the matter and I would like to see it happen prior to Green release. Something along the lines of all inactive level 1's (5+ years) are purged or have a letter or letters added to the end of their names so it frees the name up.

Forget green, this would be a big win for Blue. The funny thing would be the character name gold rush that would immediately follow. Would it not be relatively straightforward to compute the platinum value of an account by cross referencing with the wiki?

Originally Posted by Maker_Mayhem [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Or to simply add an x upon merging to blue?

I think Detoxx already created Detoxxx and such. You might end up with Detoxxxxxxxxxx.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Raev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think Detoxx already created Detoxxx and such. You might end up with Detoxxxxxxxxxx.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I know you're not being serious, but I think the idea is that if a player ignores character X for however long and it gets renamed, but then for some odd reason they actually wanted to play it and not use it as a bank character, presumably they could petition to get it changed to a non-"xxxxx" name.

[Maker_Mayhem]

That would be neat if you could find a reference point Canelek?

[Chortles Snort|eS]

SEPTEMBER 28, 2000

Level 1 Character Purge:

The Level 1 character purge has been completed. All level 1 characters that have not been played within the past 30 days have been deleted.

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000928.html

AUGUST 9, 2000

Character Purge:

Time has come to do some cleanup on character data across the servers. On August 23rd (Pacific), we will be doing a system-wide cleanup of level 1 characters. All level 1 characters that have that have not been played within 30 days from the date of the purge will be deleted. As GMs will not be able to restore any characters that are deleted, please be certain to log in any level 1 characters that you wish to keep prior to the purge.

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20000809.html

[Chortles Snort|eS]

elveS got 40 DayS b4 leveL 1 deleTES!

[Maker_Mayhem]

Thanks Llandris for your input! More GM or Dev input would be greatly appreciated [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]